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CEI leads coalition supporting OCC preemption of Illinois Interchange Fee Prohibition Act
CEI today sent a letter to Jonathan Gould, the Comptroller of the Currency, cosigned by 22 other free market groups, supporting his office’s efforts…
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Let’s put the next SpaceX in our 401(k)s before its launch onto public markets
As Artemis II achieved liftoff for the first moon voyage in more than 50 years, space news also rocked the investment world with the breaking…
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Statement of Support for the Unfunded Mandates Accountability and Transparency Act
The Unfunded Mandates Accountability and Transparency Act (UMATA) represents a timely and necessary modernization of federal oversight. Nearly three decades ago, the original and overwhelmingly…
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CEI to Co-sponsor CSR Reconsidered 2005
The CSR Reconsidered conference was a success. Human Events covered the conference and wrote about it here. ‘Wolves in CSR Clothing’ is…
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UNESCO to U.S.: Drop Dead!
Last Thursday, the United States was sucker-punched by an international organization. A majority of countries belonging to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and…
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Bill Banning Bogus Gun Lawsuits Should Pass Constitutional Test
Contact:Christine Hall, 202.331.2273 Washington, D.C., October 20, 2005—The House passed a bill today banning lawsuits aimed at holding gun makers liable for…
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New Study Provides Outline for Telecom Reform
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Washington, D.C., October 18, 2005—The rules that govern the telecommunications industry in the United States have…
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Supreme Court Turns Away Justice Department Demand in Tobacco Lawsuit
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Washington, D.C., October 17, 2005— The Supreme Court today rightly rejected the Justice Department’s attempt to…
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. GLOBAL WARMING Global warming is being blamed for new data that says 2005 will be the hottest…
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LordD have MerCIe Vpon Vs
In some places in London, you can find scratched on old walls the imprecation, LorD haVe MerCIe Vpon Vs. The curious arrangement of the capital…
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CEI Planet: September – October 2005
Full Document Available in PDF No Regulation Without Representation…
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Letter to Congress Regarding Digital TV Transition and Cable Multicasting
The undersigned organizations would like to express their strong opposition to proposals toextend “must carry” rules for cable operators to include the multiple streams of…
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New Warren T. Brookes Journalism Fellow to Join CEI
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Washington, D.C., October 12, 2005— The Competitive Enterprise Institute is pleased to announce…
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Batman’s Lessons
Given the enormous amounts of money advocates of bigger government throw about these days, many market liberals long to find our own “George Soros.”…
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Challenge to the State Attorney General-Tobacco Cartel
On August 2, 2005 the Competitive Enterprise Institute launched a legal challenge to the multi-state tobacco settlement of 1998. Nearly seven years after the settlement was…
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No Regulation Without Representation
The exact cost of the federal regulatory state may never be fully known. As with taxes, firms generally pass along to consumers some of their…
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Testimony to the Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs of the House Government Reform Committee, July 27, 2005
Chairwoman [Candice] Miller [R-Mich]. Ranking Member [Stephen] Lynch [D-Mass] and Members of the Subcommittee, thank you inviting me to comment on congressional regulatory reform initiatives. …
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. LEGAL & CONSTITUTIONAL Investors Business Daily quotes Special Projects Counsel Hans Bader on the prospects of…
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Lord of War Fires a Dud
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Federal Judge Dismisses Greenhouse Gas Lawsuit
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Washington, D.C., September 15, 2005—A federal judge today dismissed a lawsuit brought by several states and…
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Senate Judiciary Hearings on Judge John Roberts: Chance for Grandstanding or Serious Debate?
Washington, DC, September 13, 2005—As questioning begins today in the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings for the nomination of D.C. Circuit Court Judge John…
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Big Tobacco Market Share Is Big Concern for States
In defending its settlement with Big Tobacco, the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) argues that “the states are not 'partners with the…
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Gouging? No Such Thing
For various reasons, I took a lot of trips to the local hardware store on Sunday. On my route there were two gas…
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Katrina’s Aftermath: What Will it Take to Rebuild ‘The Big Easy’?
Washington, D.C., September 7, 2005— As the relief effort continues in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />New Orleans, questions about how…
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Questioning the Authority of Scientific Journals
A Tufts University School of Medicine reporter has realized that a pretty large amount of scientific findings are, well, wrong. This work…
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. AUTOMOBILITY Forbes reports on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s plan to update its fuel economy…
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Suffocating Small Companies
The Washington Times is on target in pointing out the Sarbanes-Oxley Act’s strangulation of small public companies in even more layers of red tape (“Relief…
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Jared Diamond and the Terrible Too’s
Full article available in pdf format Fred Smith's review essay of Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed in…
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Government-Tobacco Cartel Challenged In Court
Washington, D.C., August 2, 2005—The Competitive Enterprise Institute on Tuesday filed a constitutional challenge to the 1998 tobacco settlement. The suit alleges…
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. TELECOM Congress prepares to consider a sweeping reform of telecommunications law. CEI Expert Available to…
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Reform FCC—Limit It!
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />U.S. communications policy is at an important inflection point. Cable, telephone and wireless companies aim to…
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Moment of Truth Approaches for Free Trade
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A New Hope for Free Markets in Telecom
Contact: Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273 Washington, D.C., July 27, 2005—Sen. John Ensign (R-NV) this morning announced wide-ranging legislation that would modernize U.S. telecommunications law…
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Written Statement of Marlo Lewis: U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform Subcommittee on Regulatory Affair
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. TELECOM Senator John Ensign (R-NV) introduces major new legislation aimed at overhauling telecommunications law. CEI…
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Slicing Telecom the Right Way: Making a Real Market is the Best Cure for Monopoly
Mergers involving SBC and Verizon and a recent Supreme Court decision exempting cable-modem companies from open-access regulation have reignited fears of market domination…
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Final Energy Bill: Too Much Pork, Not Enough Energy
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Washington, D.C., July 26, 2005—More…
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CEI Policy Analyst to Argue for Regulatory Reform
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> <?xml:namespace prefix = v ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml” /> Contact: …
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SEC Cox Hearings Highlight Sarbanes-Oxley Burdens
Contact for Interviews: <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273 Christine Hall, 202.331.2258…
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. ENERGY House and Senate conference committee members reach agreement on major energy legislation.
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The Nationalization of Basic Science
Full Document Available in PDF The National Institutes of Health (NIH)…
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All Cost, No Benefit
Tomorrow, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will hold a hearing on Sen. Jeff Bingaman's (D-N.M.) Climate and Economy Insurance Act. Originally…
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First Step in Fuel Economy Reform Should Be Assessing CAFE’s Lethal Effect
Contact: <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273 <?xml:namespace prefix =…
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. AUTOMOBILITY The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration proposes new fuel economy rules based on car…
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
1. ENERGY Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger imperils California’s economy with new regulations on greenhouse gases. CEI Expert Available to Comment: Senior Fellow…
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No Fizz in Soda Scare
The food police filed a petition this week with the federal government to require that regular (non-diet) soft drinks carry health warning labels. But…
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Boeing vs. Airbus
Full Document Available in PDF The United States and the European Union (EU) may be on…
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
1. REGULATION Washington Post columnist Cindy Skrzycki cites CEI’s most recent regulatory study, Ten Thousand Commandments. CEI Expert Available to Comment:…
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One-on-One with Barun Mitra
Full interview available in pdf format<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” E: You were recent awarded the Julian L. Simon Award by…
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. CIVIL LIBERTIES The House and Senate Judiciary Committees debate whether or not to reauthorize…
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Issues in the News 1. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT The G8 nations propose a new aid package for Africa. CEI Expert Available…
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
1. TECHNOLOGY In the wake of the US Supreme Court decision that P2P firm Grokster could be held liable for aiding digital piracy,…
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT Politicians and economic experts from around the world gather in Scotland this week for…
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. LEGAL & CONSTITUTIONAL Property rights activists organize and a Montana Congressman introduces legislation to counter the Supreme…
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Ten Thousand Commandments
Full Study Available in pdf format Executive Summary In the fiscal…
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. ENERGY The Senate passes major new energy legislation. From CEI: Director of Global Warming &…
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A Toast to the Supremes
Full Document Available in PDF Cheers to the Supreme Court for its…
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Markets, not Mandates, Can Best Protect Copyrights
Full Document Available in PDF With the Supreme Court…
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. ENERGY New research indicates that global oil production is not likely to peak anytime soon.
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The Uses and Abuses of Finite Risk Reinsurance
Finite risk has become what derivatives were ten years ago—a hot button for controversy and the likely subject of investigations, litigation, and (heaven forbid)…
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. TRANSPORTATION Communities in states such as Michigan, Florida, Texas and…
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CEI comments on the Millennium Challenge Corporation’s “Interim Environmental Guidelines”
Full Document Available in PDF CEI strongly urges…
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Abolish Federal Pension Guarantee
Just as the squeaky wheel gets the grease, a government program gets Congress’ attention by going deep in the red. And the Pension Benefit Guaranty…
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Dispatch
Issues in the News 1. TECHNOLOGY Microsoft and the EU Competition Commission have apparently reached an agreement over the Commission’s 2004…
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
1. PRIVACY United Parcel Service loses computer tapes containing financial records for 3.9 million Citigroup Inc. customers. From CEI: Vice President…
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The Revolution Spins toward More Regulation
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Greens Are the Real Energy Problem, by Steven J. Milloy
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> It goes without saying that the global economy depends on the availability of…
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Air Sickness: Who’s to Blame? (Part 2)
Full study available in pdf format If management-labor relations at large airlines are preventing fair competition with newer airlines, to what extent…
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. ANTITRUST Microsoft submits its final proposal for complying with the latest order by the…
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. CIVIL LIBERTIES The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence begins debate over whether to renew…
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. ECONOMIC LIBERTY The union campaign against Wal-Mart expands in the Washington,…
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The Problem with the Voice over IP 911 Mandate
“Today the FCC adopted a rule requiring VoIP providers to provide emergency 911 calling services and they will have only 120…
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If Wishes Were Horses, This Would Be the Kentucky Derby
GENEVA, Switzerland—The 58th World Health Assembly (the World Health Organization's policy-making body) under way here brings to mind the cliché about the contestants…
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CEI’s Dinner Photos
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Obesity Hysteria Survives Despite Official Debunking
Obesity hysteria recently collapsed under its own weight. But the public health establishment, media and politicians are doing their best to revive it.Researchers from…
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PhRMA President Billy Tauzin To Keynote CEI Annual Dinner
Washington, D.C., May 9, 2005—In his first address to a non-healthcare industry audience since taking the top drug industry post in January, Pharmaceutical Research and…
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American Dream or American Politics?
To the Editor: Roland J. Hwang has a curious approach to the issue of the auto industry's future (“Hybrids can propel Big 3…
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One Bundle, Many Antitrust Laws: The Dilemma for Digital Products
Alongstanding question in the software debate is whether operating systems and components such as browsers and media players are really separate products bundled as one or…
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Mandated Recycling of Electronics: Creating a Mountain out of a Landfill
This article is based on the report, Mandating Recycling of Electronics: A Lose-Lose-Lose Proposition , published by CEI, February 2005. Haste maketh waste in the…
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One, Two, Many Broken Windows
Full Document Available in PDF Albert Einstein is often attributed with defining…
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Ponzi’s Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend
Full Document Available in PDF Many have heard…
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Bush’s Nominee is Wrong Guy for FDA at this Critical Time
The president's nominee to head the Food and Drug Administration, Lester Crawford, faces daunting challenges. As acting commissioner for most of the past…
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Anheuser-Busch Trapped In Social-Issue Snare by Steven J. Milloy
Corporate managers might want to think twice about publicly engaging in environmental and social controversies. Budweiser brewer Anheuser-Busch's managers are the latest to learn…
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Hysteria over Cosmetics
Europe-envy by Californians may be fine for makers of champagne and foie gras, but it's disastrous for legislators in search of sound regulatory policy.
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Environmental Handcuffs
If eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, then certainly we should heed George Washington’s counsel to "steer clear of entangling foreign alliances." That…
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‘Best Corporate Citizen’ Is a Dubious Distinction
Engine manufacturer Cummins Incorporated is Business Ethics magazine’s "best corporate citizen" for 2005. At first glance, it’s tempting to ask, What is Cummins…
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The Mercantilist Fallacy
The Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) is in trouble. It is so because Congress and the public have forgotten that imports are a…
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Reagan’s Ghost: Liberal pundits miss the boat when talking tax reform.
In their attempt to strangle President Bush's tax-reform plan before it even reaches the cradle, liberal journalist-strategists have conjured up a strange political…
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Improving Capitalism: The Respective Roles of Business and Government
Full Document Available in PDF This is an excerpt…
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February/ March Issue of CEI’s Monthly Planet
Full Document Available in PDF Featured in the February/March Issue of the…
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A Solution to the Grokster Copyright Debate?
Contact for Interviews: <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273 <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns…
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Reviving Real Regulatory Reform
Full Document Available in PDF Washington, D.C., March 24, 2005—Congress and the President, now more than…
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Misnamed Activists Are Thorns In Rose Of Agbiotech Foods
In a spin-dominated world where activists claim—often on the flimsiest of data—that this, that or the other thing causes cancer or threatens the…
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Career Scientist Nominated as EPA Head
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Erin Bode: Quite a Cover Girl
As I listen to the light and bouncy voice of Erin Bode, the young singer being positioned by the boutique jazz label MaxJazz…
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Global Tax; or Global Tax Reform?
Am I the only one who noticed that the Kyoto Protocol (imposing artificial constraints on energy use to regulate atmospheric carbon dioxide to…
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UN Sea Treaty Brings ‘Tragedy of the Commons’
Contact for Interviews: <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273 …
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The Price is Right—Or Better Be!
Full Document Available in PDF On the popular television game show “The…
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One, Two, Many Broken Windows
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Albert Einstein is often attributed with defining insanity as doing the same over…
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$1.5 billion Bush Tax on Air Travel Fails Cost-Benefit Test
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Bush Budget Missteps On Energy, Environment, Regulatory Reform
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Contact for Interviews: Christine Hall, 202.331.2258, or Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273…
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CEI Scholars Respond to Bush Budget
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> OVERVIEW Analysis from CEI Vice President for Policy Clyde…
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Study: “E-Waste” is Manageable
Contact for Interviews: Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273 Washington, D.C., February 3, 2005—With rapid technological improvements in computers and electronics turning millions of products…
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Clyde Wayne Crews
Fred L. Smith Fellow in Regulatory Studies
- Business and Government
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- Antitrust
- Business and Government
- Capitalism and Free Enterprise
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Senior Economist and Director of Publications
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